Nathan Chen is an American figure skater who made his senior debut in international competition in 2016.[1] Chen, the reigning Olympic champion (2022) and a three-time world champion (2018, 2019, 2021), was the first skater to land five different types of quadruple jumps in competition, the first skater to land six quadruple jumps in a free program, and the first skater to land eight quadruple jumps across a single competition. Chen has broken multiple world and national records and is the current world record holder for two competition segments in the senior men's discipline; the short program and combined total score, and former world record holder in the free skate.
When Chen captured his first U.S. title at the 2017 U.S Championships at age 17, he became the youngest national champion since Dick Button (1946). That same year, he won the Four Continents title and the first of three successive grand prix final titles. Chen won his first world title in 2018 and became the youngest world champion since Evgeni Plushenko (2001). He repeated as world champion in 2019, and in 2021, he was the first U.S. man to win three world titles in a row since Scott Hamilton (1982–1984).[note 1] In early January 2022, Chen became the first man to win six consecutive U.S. championships since Button (1946–52), and a month later, at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he was the first Asian American man to win Olympic gold.
First skater to land five different quadruple jumps (quadruple toe loop, quadruple Salchow, quadruple loop, quadruple flip, and quadruple Lutz) in competition
Each technical element of a program is assigned a base value, which gives skaters credit for every element they perform. Some elements, such as spins, and step sequences, have levels of difficulty (level 1 is the lowest, level 4 is the highest) on which the base values are established. A judging panel grades the quality of each element using the grade of execution score (GOE) within a range of −5 to +5 (the historical system prior to the 2018–19 season had a range between +3/-3), which is added to or deducted from the base value. GOEs are proportional to the base value of each element. The highest and lowest scores for each element are thrown out, and the remaining scores are averaged to determine the final GOE for each element. The GOE is then added to or subtracted from the base value for each element, and the sum of the scores for all elements forms the technical score.[66] In the current +5/-5 system, Chen has received 4 perfect scores for two technical elements in international competition, his choreographic sequence and level four step sequence.
SP – Short program
FS – Free skate
Unanimous +5 GOE marks from the judging panel highlighted in bold
Technical elements with maximum score in the +5/-5 GOE system[62]
Chen is the historical national record holder for the senior men's short program, the senior men's free skate, and accumulative score. He also holds the current national record scores for all three segments for the senior men's discipline at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
SP – Short program
FS – Free skating
World record scores are highlighted in bold and italic
Chen has received a total of seven perfect scores for technical elements at the U.S. Championships. In the current +5/-5 GOE system, Chen was awarded maximum scores for a step sequence, a choreographic sequence, a jump and a jump combination. In the old +3/-3 GOE system, he received perfect scores for two step sequences. Furthermore, Chen was awarded perfect 10.00s in the performance component for his free skate at the 2019 U.S. Championships.
x – 10% bonus in the base value for a jump executed in the second half of the program
Unanimous +5GOE marks from the judging panel highlighted in bold
Technical elements with maximum score at the U.S. Championships in the +5/-5 GOE system[62]
Chen (center left) with Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (left), Rika Kihira (center right) and Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (right) at 2018 Internationaux de France Exhibition
Chen has achieved combined total scores above 300 points seven times since the implementation of the +5/-5 system in the 2018–19 season, twice in the +3/-3 system season prior to that season.
Total scores above 300 points in the +5/-5 system[64]
Medals at team events are awarded for the team result only. The individual placement in the combined total at the ISU World Team Trophy is listed in brackets.
Medals at team events are awarded for the team result only. The individual placement in the combined total at the ISU World Team Trophy is listed in brackets.
↑ Figure skating was formerly judged in a system with a 6.0 scale. The International Skating Union adopted a new judging system in 2003 based on a code of points, using grades of execution (GOE) within a range of −3 to +3. The range changed to −5 to +5 from the 2018–19 season.[3]
↑ Berman, John; Woo, Wonbo; Brozyna, Christine (February 19, 2010), "Person of the Week", ABC News, archived from the original on March 17, 2023, retrieved March 17, 2023
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Nathan Chen is an American figure skater who won his first competition in 2003 at age 3. He spent the beginning of his career in Salt Lake City, progressing through the lower levels of U.S. Figure Skating's developmental pipeline before relocating to Southern California in 2011. His first basic skills and pre-preliminary competition programs as a young skater were set to instrumental versions of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Three Blind Mice. Chen qualified for his first U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships in 2007 and rose through the juvenile and intermediate ranks between 2007 and 2009. A recording of his early 2007 exhibition performance to "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from The Lion King resurfaced before the 2018 Winter Olympics. Chen made it to his first U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 2010 where he, at 10 years old, became the youngest novice champion in history, skating to music from Kung Fu Panda and Peter and the Wolf. At the end of the championships, he was featured in NBC's coverage of the exhibition gala and was later chosen as the ABC Person of the Week.
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